GEN Castlevania Bloodlines

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I've been doing these videos for a rather long time without ever doing a Castlevania game, so it's time to rectify that situation. Castlevania Bloodlines is probably my favourite of the "classic" Castlevanias, while still old-school in design it doesn't control nearly as stiffly as the other games.

This had all the makings of a phenominal run, but my old "last boss" curse comes back to haunt me yet again, and I come within inches of blowing it all. I've actually cut out a solid 10 minutes of failure at the last boss, so you can't really tell, but you can see that I go from having lots of lives to having none. Still, there was no way I was starting this over again.

GEN Rocket Knight Adventures

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Well, here's the game that was hinted at last week, Rocket Knight Adventures. Unfortunately, I still wasn't ever able to convince my capture card to work with it, I just had to settle for using an emulator. It doesn't help that my keyboard skills have gotten rusty.

Oh well, it's a good game anyway and well worth checking out.

The best laid plans of men and possums

Well, I was going to record something this week with my shiny new Genesis (see the Photo post, below), but unfortunately my Genesis and my Capture Card have taken an immediate dislike to each other and refuse to cooperate.

I'll probably try to fiddle around with the capturing software some more to see if there's any way I can make it capture the signal properly but for the moment there is no run to speak of. Which is annoying because I was all practiced and everything.

However, I have taken some new pictures of my gaming stuff, including a new picture of my more decked-out entertainment center. You can see the new pictures in the post linked below:

Gaming Collection Photos

(You can also probably guess what the game was going to be)